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You take no battle damage from your opponent's monsters this turn. Your monsters cannot be destroyed by battle this turn.
Waboku — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 52 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 52 · Deck: 52 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Negation/Interaction · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Waboku reliably turns one opposing battle attack into no battle damage and protects your monsters from battle destruction for one turn, at the cost of one card and no board or card advantage. Its breadth comes from being a generic, cheap, non-garnet trap that fits 114 archetypes, not from any combo or engine role. The 400/400 deck count and staple partners do not earn points, because the evidence pack only contains decks that run the card, so that rate is structural rather than a measure of strength; the score stays at a mid-tier defensive trap.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Set trap that is live once drawn and set; no searcher or starter data, but it is spread across 114 archetypes at about 2 copies (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 15 | The text is a one-turn battle protection effect that builds nothing, and no combos were recorded, so no conversion is shown (verified). |
| Resource Economy | 25 | It costs one card and returns no advantage, refuel or search, only preserved board presence (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 45 | It blanks opposing battle damage and battle destruction for one turn only; it is soft, battle-only interaction, not negation or removal (verified). |
| Material Utility | 0 | It is a trap card, so it cannot be monster material or provide level or attribute (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | The single-turn effect is lost to backrow removal or negation, and redundancy comes only from multiple copies, not recovery (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | There is no garnet, lock or restriction, and it is a 1 to 3 copy generic trap that slots into most decks (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Utility (Negation/Interaction primary, Utility secondary). Intrinsic ≈ 52, Deck ≈ 52, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Cheap, one-slot defence against battle attacks
- Protects monsters from battle destruction for a turn
- Fits 114 archetypes, so it is portable across homes
Weaknesses
- Builds no board and gives no card advantage
- Battle-only: no protection from effect damage or effect destruction
- Vulnerable to backrow removal or trap negation before battle
Counters / choke points
- Backrow removal or trap negation before the battle step
- Effect damage or direct attacks, which Waboku does not prevent
Best use
Battle-phase protection set trap. Decks: Exodia, Paleozoic, Chain Burn. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: prevents battle damage from opposing monsters and battle destruction of your monsters for one turn; Formats: TCG, OCG, MasterDuel; No combos recorded for the card
- Observed: Present in the 400-deck sample at an average of 1.94 copies across 114 archetypes; Top partners include Solemn Judgment, One Day of Peace and Harpie's Feather Duster; StatisticsCard inclusion: Gate Guardian 100%, Grepher 100%, Regenesis 60%; Guide mention: Chain Burn runs it as a battle trap
- Inferred: Primary role Negation/Interaction with a Utility blend; Deck-level 100% running rate is a selection artifact, not a strength signal; Accessibility is high because it is a generic, cheap trap, not from a measured starter rate
- Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference No banlist token and legal copies is empty; 3 copies assumed decks running it in the Main Deck = total decks = 400 indicates the pack only holds decks containing the card, so inclusion rate is not a measured signal No rulings supplied Only one guide mention